The shambolic failures of social workers to protect Daniel Pelka from his
violent mother and her partner have been laid bare by a
review into the brutal death of the four-year-old boy.

It found that Coventry Children’s Services wrongly concluded on four separate
occasions that Daniel was safe at home after conducting supposedly rigorous
assessments, although workers never actually spoke to the boy.

His death from a head injury in March 2012 after months of starvation,
poisoning and abuse was one of the worst cases of child abuse in Britain
since the
Baby P tragedy six years ago.